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Living in Oosterleek

The population is shrinking, while it grows in Drechterland. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Drechterland.

100 residents, 52 homes, Data: CBS, Politie, Kiesraad, Kadaster

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Compared with the municipality of Drechterland · newest year available

Location

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Neighbourhoods

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01 · Prices & homes

Homes cost more than the Drechterland average.

The average WOZ value in Oosterleek is €488,000, 15% higher than in Drechterland (€423,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 40%, against a rise of 39% in Drechterland. 92% of the homes are owner-occupied, 18 percentage points more than in Drechterland (74%).

Key figures
  • Average WOZ value
    €488,000
    15% higher than Drechterland (€423,000)
  • Rise in WOZ value since 2021
    +40%
    higher than Drechterland (+39%)
  • More figures
  • Owner-occupied dwellings
    92%
    18 percentage points higher than Drechterland (74%)
  • Social housing
    0%
    19 percentage points lower than Drechterland (19%)
  • Private rent
    8%
    2 percentage points higher than Drechterland (6%)
  • Single-family dwellings
    100%
    12 percentage points higher than Drechterland (88%)
  • Built 1992–2005
    8%
    12 percentage points lower than Drechterland (20%)
  • Built 1965–1974
    9%
    10 percentage points lower than Drechterland (19%)
  • Built 2006–2015
    4%
    7 percentage points lower than Drechterland (11%)

WOZ value per year

The average WOZ value rose 40% between 2021 and 2025, to €488,000.

Average WOZ value, 2025
€488,00015% above Drechterland
  • +40% since 2021
  • Drechterland +39%
Explanation

The WOZ value as struck on 1 January of the year before the KWB edition.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Modelled ownership costs

Modelled ownership costs for a typical dwelling here: ~€332 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)

€332/ month

Typical home here, before mortgage and energy

  • 147 m² · estimated gemeente average
  • WOZ €488,000 · average here
Levies you'll be billed€132NL median
  • Water board levy€46–
  • Property tax (OZB)€38€43
  • Waste levy€31€27
  • Sewage levy€17€22
Costs to set aside€200
  • Maintenance reserve€187–
  • Buildings insurance€13–

Model estimates, not bills.

For this home, Drechterland's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 99th of 334 gemeenten, cheapest first.

cheapestdearest

Water board, maintenance and insurance are estimated from national rates and the home's value and size, so they aren't compared.

Explanation
  • The home: one typical home of 147 m² (estimated gemeente average) with the average WOZ value here, €488,000.
  • Levies: Drechterland's own OZB, sewage and waste rates for 2026. The water board levy uses national average rates.
  • Set aside: maintenance at 0.85% and buildings insurance at 0.06% a year of the rebuild cost (€1,800 per m²).
  • NL median: what the same home would pay in the middle gemeente. Gemeenten where a regional body collects the waste levy are left out.
  • Not included: mortgage and energy. These are estimates, not actual bills.

Source: Municipal levies + CBS 2026

Dwelling value ladder

Oosterleek has the 3rd-highest WOZ value of the 8 wijken in the municipality of Drechterland.

Netherlands€398,000
Drechterland€423,000
Schellinkhout€527,000
Wijdenes€502,000
Oosterleek€488,000

Oosterblokker€485,000
Hem€432,000
Westwoud€417,000
Hoogkarspel€401,000
Venhuizen€396,000
Explanation

Average WOZ value from the Netherlands down to this area, and its rank within its own group (e.g. buurten within the same wijk). Provincie is omitted: KWB publishes no province rows to average.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)

WOZ value and age structure

Here: €488,000 average WOZ value.

ValueDwellingsAged 65+
Oosterleek488,00052–
Hoogkarspel401,0003,766–
Westwoud417,000749–
Oosterblokker485,000629–
Venhuizen396,0001,837–
Wijdenes502,000650–
Schellinkhout527,000381–
Hem432,000674–
Explanation

Each circle is an area: position by average WOZ value, size by dwelling count. The 65-and-over share (pct_65_plus) travels on every point but is not yet drawn as a second axis.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)

Dwellings by ownership

The largest category is owner-occupied, at 92% of dwellings.

  • Owner-occupied92%
  • Private rent8%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by type

100% of the dwelling stock is single-family homes.

  • Single-family homes100%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by build period

51% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 15% in the municipality of Drechterland.

  • Before 194550.9%
  • 1945-19649.4%
  • 1965-19749.4%
  • 1975-199117%
  • 1992-20057.5%
  • 2006-20153.8%
  • 2016 and later1.9%
Explanation

Based on 53 dwellings with a registered construction year in the BAG (verblijfsobjecten whose pand has no usable bouwjaar, such as 1005 or 9999, are excluded).

Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01

02 · Safety

Too few residents for a rate per resident: these are counts.

Oosterleek has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 0 crimes were registered, against 3 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.

Key figures
  • Registered crimes, 2025
    0
    down from 3 in 2021
  • Home burglary
    0
    2023–2025

Registered crime per year

0 crimes were registered in Oosterleek in 2025 (3 in 2021).

Registered crimes, 2025
0
  • down from 3 in 2021
Explanation

Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200) — registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED.

Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025

Traffic accidents by outcome

In 2021, police in Oosterleek registered 1 traffic accidents, of which 1 with injury and none fatal.

2020
2021
FatalInjuryMaterial damage only
Explanation

Registered accidents (BRON, Rijkswaterstaat); material-damage-only accidents have not been systematically registered since roughly 2010 and are not comparable between areas. This area shows only accidents with an exactly known location (roughly 80-85% of all registered accidents); the rest is known only at street, intersection or gemeente level. The comparison with the gemeente therefore also uses only the gemeente's exactly-located accidents, which is why that figure is lower than on the gemeente's own page.

Source: BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2021

03 · Living environment

Green space is above the Drechterland average.

Agricultural land is the largest land use in Oosterleek, covering 88% of the area, against 61% in Drechterland. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 4% of the area, 2 percentage points above the 2% in Drechterland.

Key figures
  • Green (parks, sport, nature)
    4%
    2 percentage points higher than Drechterland (2%)
  • Agriculture, share of the area
    88%
    27 percentage points higher than Drechterland (61%)
  • Water, share of the area
    0%
    27 percentage points lower than Drechterland (27%)
  • Built-up, share of the area
    3%
    4 percentage points lower than Drechterland (7%)

Land use

4% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 2% in the municipality of Drechterland.

  • Traffic1.9%
  • Built-up2.9%
  • Other built-up3.8%
  • Agriculture87.6%
  • Forest and nature3.8%
Explanation

Every share is calculated as a percentage of the TOTAL area (land and water together, peiljaar 2022); water is therefore one of the slices itself, not a separate whole. Green is the sum of recreational terrain (parks, sport fields, allotments, day recreation) and natural terrain (forest, open natural terrain) — agricultural land is not counted as green here.

Source: CBS Bodemgebruik (86211NED) 2022

04 · Residents

The population is shrinking, while it grows in Drechterland.

Oosterleek has 100 inhabitants (2026), or 96 per km² (72% lower than in Drechterland). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Drechterland was 83%, 5 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, VVD had the highest share there: 19% of the vote, against 14% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.

Key figures
  • Population growth since 2021
    -5%
    lower than Drechterland (+4%)
  • Turnout, municipality of Drechterland
    83%
    5 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (78%)
  • More figures
  • Growth of the dwelling stock
    +0%
    lower than Drechterland (+4%)
  • Aged 45 to 65
    38%
    11 percentage points higher than Drechterland (27%)
  • Married
    57%
    14 percentage points higher than Drechterland (43%)
  • Dutch origin
    86%
    about the same as Drechterland (86%)
  • VVD, share of the vote
    19%
    5 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (14%)

Population per year

The population shrank 5% between 2021 and 2026, to 100.

Residents, 2026
100
  • -5% since 2021
  • Drechterland +4%

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Density

With 96 residents per km², this wijk is 72% less densely populated than the municipality of Drechterland.

Residents per km²96
Dwellings per km²50

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Births and deaths per 1,000 residents

In 2025, almost no children were born; almost no one died.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
BirthsDeaths

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Residents by age group

38% of residents are between 45 and 65.

  • 0 to 155
  • 15 to 2515
  • 25 to 4510
  • 45 to 6540
  • 65 to 8030
  • 80 and over5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Marital status

57% of residents are married.

  • Never married35
  • Married60
  • Divorced5
  • Widowed5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Residents by country of origin

86% of residents have Dutch origin.

  • Netherlands90
  • Europe (excluding the Netherlands)10
  • Outside Europe5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Parliamentary election

These figures are for the whole municipality of Drechterland; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 83% of eligible voters in Drechterland voted. The largest party was VVD with 19% of the valid votes.

Municipality of DrechterlandThe Netherlands
D66
15.7%
16.9%
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)
14.9%
16.7%
VVD
18.9%
14.2%
GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)
8%
12.8%
CDA
13.3%
11.8%
JA21
9.2%
5.9%
Forum voor Democratie
6.5%
4.5%
BBB
5.9%
2.6%
Other
7.7%
14.4%
Explanation

Official election result (Kiesraad), top 8 parties by national vote count plus 'Other'; share of valid votes. A voter may vote at any polling station in their own gemeente; there is therefore no reliable buurt- or wijk-level result. This figure is the whole gemeente's own result.

Source: Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025

05 · More figures

More figures

Oosterleek has an average of 1.4 cars per household, 8% higher than in Drechterland (1.3). 43% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 20 percentage points more than in Drechterland (23%).

Key figures
  • Cars per household (2025)
    1.4
    8% higher than Drechterland (1.3)
  • Cars not on petrol (2025)
    43%
    20 percentage points higher than Drechterland (23%)
  • Change in cars not on petrol since 2021
    +14 pp
    higher than Drechterland (+5 pp)
  • Lodging, share of addresses
    11%
    8 percentage points higher than Drechterland (3%)
  • Industrial, share of addresses
    3%
    3 percentage points lower than Drechterland (6%)
  • Assembly, share of addresses
    3%
    2 percentage points higher than Drechterland (1%)
  • Private rent
    8%
    6 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (14%)
  • Owner-occupied dwellings
    92%
    35 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (57%)
  • Single-family dwellings
    100%
    37 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (63%)

Passenger cars by fuel type

43% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 23% in the municipality of Drechterland (2025).

  • Petrol57.1%
  • Other fuel (diesel, LPG, electric etc.)42.9%
Explanation

CBS splits passenger cars into 'petrol' and 'other fuel' only. That second category bundles diesel, LPG, electric (including hybrid), hydrogen, alcohol, LNG and CNG together — CBS publishes no separate electric-car count per buurt, wijk or gemeente, so this is not the same as an 'electric share'.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Share on other fuel per year

The share of passenger cars not running on petrol went from 29% to 43% between 2021 and 2025.

Share on other fuel, 2025
43%20 percentage points above Drechterland (23%)
  • +14 pp since 2021
  • Drechterland +5 pp
Explanation

See the 'Passenger cars by fuel type' card for what 'other fuel' covers — this is not the share of electric cars.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Vehicles by kind

In 2025, 70 passenger cars and 5 motorcycles were registered here.

Passenger cars70
Motorcycles5
Explanation

At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Addresses by building use

87% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is lodging (11%).

  • Residential86.9%
  • Assembly3.3%
  • Industrial3.3%
  • Lodging11.5%
Explanation

Based on 61 verblijfsobjecten in use. An object with several registered uses (e.g. a flat above a shop) is counted under each of them, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.

Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01

Biggest difference from the Netherlands

96 residents per km²: 82% less densely populated than the Dutch average.

This areaThe Netherlands
  • Residents per km²96
  • Private rent8%
  • Owner-occupied dwellings92%
  • Single-family dwellings100%
  • Average WOZ value€488,000
Explanation

The 5 characteristics that differ most from the national average, ranked by log ratio (so a halving and a doubling count as equally different); the shown percentage is the ordinary difference against the Netherlands.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

06 · Neighbourhoods

Compare the neighbourhoods of Oosterleek

Compare the neighbourhoods of Oosterleek
Oosterleek100€488,000

Sources: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026, Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01, CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025, BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2021, Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025, CBS Bodemgebruik (86211NED) 2022, Municipal levies + CBS 2026. Figures describe the whole district.

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